If you didn't get the day off Monday, you had every right to rail against the morning's blistering cold winds.
Gusts faster than 40 mph were threatening to stir up debris and knock down power lines as of 9 a.m., according to an email notice from the city's Office of Emergency Management. (We imagine the employees there are stewing about working Monday, too.)
Temperatures will be frosty all day, with a forecasted low of 19 degrees and a high of 28. If you're one of those souls fortuitous enough to have Martin Luther King Jr. Day marked as a holiday on your work calendar, you had better be binge-watching Netflix and drinking hot chocolate for the rest of us.
Compounding the misery of those confined to office buildings today, Accuweather projects flurries for this afternoon.
At the very least, subways lines were running with good service, on the whole, Monday morning. The exceptions: some A and D trains were running local from 125 St. to the 59 St-Columbus Circle stop, and there were some delays in southbound B and C service.
It was a different matter for those wretched south Brooklynites making their way into Manhattan — today is the first day they've had to face the harsh reality that the Manhattan-bound platforms at nine N-train stations will be closed for more than a year.
And now for today's score: 5.
